| "Around Cage"is
a documentary that takes the form of both an installation and a continuous
performance piece. The five video monitors, placed throughout a Japanese rock garden environment, show images chosen at random by a computer program. The computer program gradually modulates images through cycles of chorus, where all screens show the same image, and verse, where all screens show different images. These video segments are culled from an archive of sixteen hours of footage.The archive consists of interviews with musicians, visual artists, dance artists and others who have been effected by Cage and his work. Special dance segments were created and filmed through chance operations for the piece. The archive also includes original music as well as a collection of environmental sounds and images. |